The protection Committee of correspondents in the United States tried to convince PMR release Ilchenko
Alexei Bogdanov. The American non-governmental organization (NGO) Committee for the protection of correspondents (CPJ) has called Transnistrian authorities to release the detained journalist Sergey Ilchenko.
Ilchenko was arrested in March on charges of public appeals to extremist activity. KGB PMR (Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic) said that Ilchenko called for an armed overthrow of the Transdniestrian authorities and armed confrontation with Russia. Ilchenko faces imprisonment for up to five years.
"We call on the authorities of the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic to immediately release Sergey Ilchenko, to return confiscated from him and his son the equipment and stop mistreatment of him and his family," said the coordinator of the European and Central Asian programs CPJ Nina Ognianova." We also call on the Moldovan authorities to focus on efforts on the release of Ilchenko", she added.
Transnistria, 60% of the inhabitants are Russians and Ukrainians, sought to secede from Moldova even before the destruction of the USSR, fearing that the wave of nationalism Moldova joining Romania. In 1992, after failed attempts by the authorities of Moldova force to solve the problem, Transnistria was in fact beyond the control of the Chisinau area.
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